Sea level on Earth has been rising and falling ever since there was water on the planet. Scientists were already able to use ...

A sandstone slab from the earliest Carboniferous period in Australia, dating to around 355 million years ago, now challenges this view. Discovered by two amateur palaeontologists who co-authored the ...

Europa plans to target gas in Carboniferous sandstone at depths of up to 2,746m. The exploration well would be drilled through several aquifers. The EA, a statutory consultee on oil and gas ...

Now, this tidy picture falls apart. A curious trackway Key to our discovery is a 35 centimetre wide sandstone slab from Taungurung country, near Mansfield in eastern Victoria.

Fossil hunters search the Carboniferous red sandstone in the Mansfield area of Victoria. Such outcrops recently yielded the trackways of the world’s oldest reptile.

Our new discovery, published today in Nature, details ancient fossil footprints found in Australia that upend the early ...

Fossil hunters search the Carboniferous red sandstone in the Mansfield area of Victoria. Such outcrops recently yielded the trackways of the world’s oldest reptile. Image credit: John Long All the ...

The sandstone block is part of a larger structure that had already been dated to the early Carboniferous on the basis of radiometric and tectonic evidence.

Fossil hunters search the Carboniferous red sandstone in the Mansfield area of Victoria. Such outcrops recently yielded the trackways of the world's oldest reptile. (John Long) Two trackways of fossil ...

Bombshell discovery of 'earliest footprints ever' completely rewrites theory of evolution The sandstone slab was found by two amateur palaeontologists in Australia and carries well-preserved ...

A sandstone slab from the earliest Carboniferous of Australia, approximately 355 million years old, discovered by two amateur palaeontologists who co-authored the study, changes all this. It ...

Trackways in Carboniferous-aged sandstone from Alveley, Shropshire. In 1914, now 111 years ago, thousands of fossil footprints from the Late Carboniferous were discovered by Doctor Frank Raw (Geology ...